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Some five years after the housing crash’s onset and following plenty of failed attempts to revive the market, there are clearly no easy fixes for the nation’s ailing housing market. It’s exactly the kind of complex problem that politicians tend to avoid.

But a new survey says it would be a mistake to skip out on the question of what to do about issues like falling home prices, rising foreclosures and stalled home construction — particularly since states key to the presidential race, such as Florida and Nevada, are still reeling from the collapse of the housing market.

Stances on housing will be important to about 70% of Americans in the 2012 presidential and congressional elections, a new survey from Move Inc. has found.

The survey shows that four out of five Americans say that housing is critical to the economic recovery, a point economists have emphasized. Yet few expect things to improve soon: 73% of Americans believe conditions for buying a home a year from now will be the same or worse than they are today. Demand for homes is weak for three familiar reasons, Move, Inc. found: uncertainty about prices, worry about the economy and jobs, and difficulty saving for down payments. Read More »